Firstly, apologies for being MIA in the Formica Minding blogosphere of late. It sure has been a busy few months.
It is currently about five thousand degrees outside (and people say climate change isn’t real!) and I have just moved into a house that is not located in the city or the metropolitan area at all. Greetings from Castlemaine.
Apparently if one moves to Castlemaine as my partner and I have just done, we are living a cliché dream, which did worry me at first. Would I be coerced into fire twirling lessons and begin to dress in clothes made purely out of hemp? I then realised though that most of the negative commentary comes from people who are living in converted warehouse spaces in Fitzroy and comment that the area in which they live is “great because it hasn’t been gentrified yet.” Pffft and I’m the second coming of Jesus Christ!
Cliché or not cliché, what I can tell you is that I have no regrets so far about trading a life of smog, rude people and getting to know strangers on a packed tram intimately through no choice of your own, for stars and fresh air.
As the year gets into full swing and I begin to juggle study, work and other commitments which shall present themselves, I am sure the sense of total relaxation I feel at the moment will be tainted slightly, but I have a feeling that life in the country will enable me to say goodbye to the highly strung city version of myself and appreciate the little stuff around me without risking a heart attack.
Wish you were here,
Heart,
Jimi D
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